Description of problem: When installing or removing a package which has a very big installed size, the Installed size is displayed incorrectly as "16E", presumably there's an overflow occuring somewhere, or incorrect formatting statement or somesuch. Eg. # dnf install ./Mathematica-10.3.0-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm Last metadata expiration check performed 0:22:19 ago on Thu Jan 21 17:58:53 2016. Dependencies resolved. ======================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================================================== Installing: Mathematica x86_64 10.3.0-1.fc23 @commandline 2.5 G Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================================================== Install 1 Package Total size: 2.5 G Installed size: 16 E This is with dnf version 1.1.5-1.fc23
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle. Changing version to '26'.
Please, we tried it but we were unable to reproduce it with dnf-2.3. We are not sure if the problem was solved or the lack of Mathematica rpm could be the point. Please can you reproduce the problem with latest dnf and libsolv version (dnf-0:2.3.0_1-17g1f1b2b6, libsolv-0.6.27-1 or later version) from our test repository (dnf copr enable rpmsoftwaremanagement/dnf-nightly). We provide there rpm for Fedora 24 or later version. Unfortunately without your help we have no other choices than close it as insufficient data.
I am able to reproduce the problem. I created RPM with 15GB file. Problem is in bad or unimplemented support for large files somewhere (dnf, libdnf, libsolv). So I am working on it. During tests I found probably similar problem in utility for creating repos - createrepo_c lack support for large files in RPM. It stores "0" if the size is too big. Example of bad line in primary.xml file: <size package="2294242" installed="0" archive="0"/> This error causes problems later during using this repo. DNF then will show: Installed size: 0 I created PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/createrepo_c/pull/76 With PR is OK: <size package="2294242" installed="15728640000" archive="15728640140"/>
Bug is in the libsolv library. I made a fix PR https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/pull/196
The patch was merged and will be part of next release of libsolv-0.6.28
Clearing needinfo.